Everybody complains that the poor don't pay taxes. If they raised the minimum wage, everybody else wouldn't be stuck paying the extra tax burden of the poor because they could pay it themselves.

If any thing, we need to raise minimum wage and lower the Earned Income Tax Credit. The EITC was created by businesses lobbying the government to low wage earners a tax break in exchange for not raising the minimum wage. It has been disastrous to tax revenues and wages. Millions of Americans get to hear how they are not carrying their tax burden as well and then are attacked by the Republicans for living on government handouts.